"Dzhugashvili
has made several thinly veiled
anti-Semitic remarks in the past. Earlier
this year, he was quoted as saying at a
public rally that "in contrast to the war
against Nazi Germany, the enemy today is
among us and hiding."

- Lev
Krichevsky, Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
July 19, 1999

http://www.jta.org/jul99/19-stal.htm

Stalin's
grandson blames Jews for Russia's economic
problems

By Lev Krichevsky

MOSCOW,
July 19 (JTA)
--
A grandson of Stalin has found a
familiar target for Russia's current woes
-- the Jews. Yevgeny Dzhugashvili
charged that "Zionists" are ravaging
Russia and that there are "practically no
[ethnic] Russians" in the current
Russian Cabinet, the Interfax news agency
reported.

The statement was similar to a series
of anti-Semitic remarks made in recent
months by prominent members of the
Communist Party, who charged that there
have been too many Jews in the government
of Russian President Boris Yeltsin
and that they are responsible for Russia's
ongoing economic and social problems.
Russia's 30-member government includes two
officials with known Jewish roots.

Stalin was responsible for several
cruel waves of persecution in the Soviet
Union, including some that involved
anti-Semitism. Dzhugashvili, a retired air
force colonel, was speaking to a crowd of
100 supporters of several radical leftists
groups that rallied near Moscow's Red
Square to protest Russian President Boris
Yeltsin's reported intention to bury
Lenin's embalmed body.

Earlier this year, Dzhugashvili
launched a new leftist electoral coalition
called the Stalinist Bloc. The bloc, which
supports the reconstitution of the Soviet
Union, is composed of radical leftist and
anti-Semitic elements. Dzhugashvili, who
like other descendants of Stalin kept a
low profile during the later years of the
Soviet Union, lives in the former Soviet
republic of Georgia, where he heads the
50,000-member Stalin Society.

Dzhugashvili has made several thinly
veiled anti-Semitic remarks in the past.
Earlier this year, he was quoted as saying
at a public rally that "in contrast to the
war against Nazi Germany, the enemy today
is among us and hiding." Stalin unleashed
a state-sponsored anti-Semitic campaign in
the Soviet Union after World War II.

The campaign, which included the
notorious "Doctors' Plot," in which
several Jewish doctors were killed after
having been falsely accused of murdering
Soviet leaders, and a drive against
"rootless cosmopolitans" -- a code word
for Jews -- ended after Stalin died in
March 1953.